Tim Hutchinson

Young Timothy "Tim" Hutchinson (11 August 1949-) was a US Senator from Arkansas (R) from 3 January 1997 to 3 January 2003, succeeding David Pryor and preceding Mark Pryor. Hutchinson previously served as a member of the US House of Representatives from Arkansas' 3rd district from 3 January 1993 to 3 January 1997, succeeding John P. Hammerschmidt and preceding Asa Hutchinson.

Biography
Young Timothy Hutchinson was born in Bentonville, Arkansas on 11 August 1949, and he attended Bob Jones University and the University of Arkansas. From 1985 to 1992, he served in the Arkansas House of Representatives as a representative from Fort Smith, and he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1992, he won election to the US House of Representatives from the 3rd congressional district, and he ran for the US Senate seat vacated by the retired David Pryor in 1997. He defeated Attorney General Winston Bryant with 53% of the vote, the first Republican senator from Arkansas since Reconstruction in 1877, and the first popularly elected one in history. Hutchinson was a staunch supported of fiscal conservatism and social conservatism, voting for pro-life legislature, tax cuts, deregulation bills, the death penalty, banning flag burning, opposing same-sex marriage, and opposing the expansion of hate crime legislation. In 2002, David Pryor's son Mark Pryor defeated Hutchinson for re-election, and Hutchinson became the only Republican incumbent to lose a Senate election that year. He became a senior adviser for the Dickson Shapiro law firm in 2003, and he became a senior director of Greenberg Traurig in Washington DC.